WATCH: Purple Heart veteran reacts to Platner's refusal to apologize for mocking him, shreds PTSD excuse
FIRST ON FOX: A Purple Heart veteran who was mocked online by Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner issued a blistering response to a video of Platner declining to apologize...
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FIRST ON FOX: A Purple Heart veteran who was mocked online by Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner issued a blistering response to a video of Platner declining to apologize or acknowledge regret over the comment. "I saw the video and honestly, I don't want an apology. I don't need an apology. I consider the source of where the comment came from, and I'm the type of person that — in order for me to worry about what you say — first I have to respect you," U.S. Army veteran Teddy Daniels said in response to a video taken by Fox News Digital over the weekend in which Platner declined to apologize. " There's zero-to-no respect for a self-proclaimed communist," Daniels said. "You know, the ironic thing is, some guys run towards gunfire and other guys run toward keyboards, and I think that's a big difference." In a now-deleted Reddit post on from June 2019, made under the username "P-Hustle" — an account that Platner has acknowledged owning — he reacted to a viral helmet-cam video showing Daniels being shot four times during a 2012 clash with Taliban fighters, saying that Daniels "didn’t deserve to live." WATCH: PLATNER DOESN'T APOLOGIZE TO PURPLE HEART RECIPIENT, VOTERS WHEN CONFRONTED ON POST MOCKING SOLDIER "This video never gets old," Platner wrote before calling Daniels a "dumb motherf---er" and claiming that "poor marksmanship" by the Taliban was the only reason Daniels survived. The deleted post can still be found in the Maine Monitor ’s database of Platner’s deleted Reddit history, alongside other resurfaced posts where he described himself as a "communist" and "socialist," used alleged homophobic slurs, and praised Hamas military tactics. Platner also targeted "American Sniper" Chris Kyle in an unearthed interview, in which he suggested Kyle killed civilians to inflate his numbers. VETS TORCH DEM SENATE HOPEFUL WHO CALLED ARMY ‘FAT, LAZY TRASH,’ MOCKED SOLDIER SHOT FOUR TIMES Daniels, a former Republican candidate for Pennsylvania lieutenant governor,…